Poet's Notes: "Durian" is a poem from my unpublished collection A Wave of Poetry inspired by my small role in support of the international relief effort in the aftermath of the terrible tsunami that struck Indonesia and Thailand 26 December 2004. A USAF flight surgeon at the time, I was one of a small contingent of USAF personnel deployed forward into Indonesia. I was the only medical support attached to a small Tanker/Airlift Control Element (TALCE), which was responsible for maintaining an airfield in austere conditions for use in the collection and distribution of vital relief supplies for the Indonesians.

I kept a careful
diary during my deployment in support of what came to be known as OPERATION UNIFIED
ASSISTANCE and so, nearly a decade later, when I finally decided to write a
memoir of those events, I was able to recount my experiences in some
detail--and since I am a poet, I did so in poetry. Unlike a standard prose memoir, I had hoped that my poetic one
would not only document the events that occurred but would, in addition, evoke
images and emotions in a way that only poetry is able to do. Still in search of a publisher for the entire collection, I am pleased to share this part of it with the readers of Songs of Eretz.

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